PoBoy321
11-18-2005, 02:49 AM
...with disastrous results. According to the recipe I got, I was supposed to take the flour, make it into a little bowl, put the egg in there and then mix it. I didn't realize just how strong the walls had to be, so the egg got out and fell all over the floor. So while I'm on my hands and knees trying to clean up the egg, I completely neglect the fact that I have about a half ounce of flour in between my head and a couple of egg yolks.
After they breach the walls and land on my head, I clean up and give it another shot. This time, I added the eggs one at a time and it worked a lot better. I got everything mixed up then added a little water to moisten the dough, but it was too wet, so I added a little flour but it was too dry. Eventually, I got it right and had a nice little ball of dough sitting on my cutting board. I wrapped it up and put it in the fridge for an hour like the recipe said.
So I came back an hour later ready to make some pasta. I wasn't totally sure what I wanted just yet, so I decided I'd make some kind of wide noodles, since I didn't have a pasta cutter and figured they would be the easiest to make. I cut off some of the dough and started to flatten it on my cutting board. I eventually got it to what I thought was thin enough when I started cutting it into little strips. I eventually got a big bowl full of my little pasta dough strips and figured that I was ready to roll.
I put a pot of water on the stove and got it boiling. I put in my little dough strips and sat down to watch some TV while I waited for them to cook.
First of all, I didn't realize how important it is to carefully separate all of the dough since they tend to stick together. I also grossly underestimated just how much fresh pasta swells in boiling water. After 10 or so minutes on the stove, I find a pot full of wet dough on my stove. Of course, I don't have anything else to eat in my apartment, so I'm pretty well stuck.
I drained the pasta, separated what I could and pan fried it with some olive oil, garlic powder, oregano and various other spices (it's my new thing, pan frying pasta, I highly recommend it). I finished the pan-fried pasta, threw it in a bowl and started to eat it.
Another thing you should realize about fresh pasta is that there's a whole lot more of it than you realize, espeially when it's in strips the size of french fries. I got through a half a bowl of my wet, fried dough, felt like I was going to be sick and I didn't have to worry that I didn't have anything to eat because I couldn't have gotten it down anyway.
The End.
After they breach the walls and land on my head, I clean up and give it another shot. This time, I added the eggs one at a time and it worked a lot better. I got everything mixed up then added a little water to moisten the dough, but it was too wet, so I added a little flour but it was too dry. Eventually, I got it right and had a nice little ball of dough sitting on my cutting board. I wrapped it up and put it in the fridge for an hour like the recipe said.
So I came back an hour later ready to make some pasta. I wasn't totally sure what I wanted just yet, so I decided I'd make some kind of wide noodles, since I didn't have a pasta cutter and figured they would be the easiest to make. I cut off some of the dough and started to flatten it on my cutting board. I eventually got it to what I thought was thin enough when I started cutting it into little strips. I eventually got a big bowl full of my little pasta dough strips and figured that I was ready to roll.
I put a pot of water on the stove and got it boiling. I put in my little dough strips and sat down to watch some TV while I waited for them to cook.
First of all, I didn't realize how important it is to carefully separate all of the dough since they tend to stick together. I also grossly underestimated just how much fresh pasta swells in boiling water. After 10 or so minutes on the stove, I find a pot full of wet dough on my stove. Of course, I don't have anything else to eat in my apartment, so I'm pretty well stuck.
I drained the pasta, separated what I could and pan fried it with some olive oil, garlic powder, oregano and various other spices (it's my new thing, pan frying pasta, I highly recommend it). I finished the pan-fried pasta, threw it in a bowl and started to eat it.
Another thing you should realize about fresh pasta is that there's a whole lot more of it than you realize, espeially when it's in strips the size of french fries. I got through a half a bowl of my wet, fried dough, felt like I was going to be sick and I didn't have to worry that I didn't have anything to eat because I couldn't have gotten it down anyway.
The End.